A participatory, intergenerational event examining the enduring impacts of colonial food histories. Hosted at Brixton People’s Kitchen in collaboration with UCL and Sloane Lab, the programme brought together community members, researchers, creatives, and families for a day of embodied learning and shared reflection.

I facilitated a series of children’s cooking and sensory storytelling workshops that invited participants to engage with food through touch, smell, taste, and narrative. These workshops were informed by the Sloane Lab collection held at UCL and the British Library, drawing on flora and fauna collected from Jamaica in the 18th century. Through hands-on making and storytelling, participants were encouraged to consider whose knowledge is preserved, how it is framed, and what it means to reconnect with these materials through contemporary, community-led practice.

The day culminated in a shared meal inspired by the same archival materials, which I designed and facilitated as a collective ritual. Eating together became a space to honour ancestral knowledge, resilience, and care, while opening dialogue across generations about food, history, and belonging.